St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-01

youngest city of its size on earth suggests my
final topic-which is the mechanical inven-
ton TO the development OF our country. But
Tor machinery had almost said but for the
application for steam to travel and to the
useful arts-Minneapolls would now be only
a trading post; our thirty eight states would
be but twenty-five, and our &c, 600 900 of in
habitants 30,000,0OO. The golden harvest
just gathered of scores of millions of acres of
prairie could never have been soWn nor
reaped without agricultural machinery, and
would be almost worthless but for the loco
motiye-that modern pegasus so helpful to
progress In all lands. so indispensable in this.
The immensely of our natural resources
has not fairly dawned on the conception OF
one intelligent American out of every 100.
The vastness OF our domain, the unimagin-
able wealth stored up in our mines and prai-
rieS, the millenial music of the homely ditty
which has sounded out to the poYerty-strlcken
millions of the old world
''Uncle Sam is rich enough
To buy us all farm"
the world-peryading knowledge that this fair
land is the home of freedom; and the mighty
inspiration of the omnipotant ballot box
have attracted TO our shores immigration
without precedent in any other land or age
In the variety of its sources the immensely
OF It's Volnme and the steady continu ance OF
Its flow. Mr.. Gladstone frankly says that
we have "a natural base for the GREATEST con.
unuous empire ever established by man."
Who can cast the
HOROSCOPE OF OUR FUTURE?
In 1900, only thirteen years from now,
our population will certainly be 100, O00,-
OOO; and in the times of our grandchildren,
more than the present population OF all
Europe. The present rate of increase and
our ascertained natural recesses abundantly
justify this expectation. We speak of vast
areas already occupied or as under cult
yation." The truth is, we have only just be-
our soil. A careful study in the social
science in the Century Magazine sounds like
q chapter from the Arabian Nights 1t
demonstrates these facts concerning sim
for growing Indian corn, wheat,
hay, oats and cotton in the whole
country now consists of 272,000 square
miles, or fraction less than the single state
OF Texas. The entire wheat crop of the
United States could be grown ON wheat land
of the best quality selected from that part of
the area OF the state of Texas by which that
state exceeds the present area of the whole
world now require annually about 12,000,-
COG bales of cotton of American weight.
Good land in Texas produces one bale to an
acre. The worlds supply of cotton could
therefore be grown on less than Is, 900 square
miles, or upon an area equal to only per
cent. OF the area of Texas
The two other great sources of wealth are
mining and manufactures. Our mining in
dustrles exceed those of Great Britain 3 per
cent, and are greater than those of all con-
tinental Europe Asia, Africa South Amer
lea, Mexico and the British colonies collec-
lively, and as yet we have hardly begun to
develop these resources AS the age of ma
tons is reckoned, ours is yet in its early
youth, yet we have already reached the front
rank as manufacturing people. In 1880
our products exceeded those of Great Brit
ain by S650,000,0o0, And in in
yentions we lead the world.
Our government issues four times as many
patents as the English. III the International
Electrical exposition in Paris five gold medals
were given. All came to the United States.
Herbert Spencer declares that beyond ques-
ton, in respect to mechanical appliances.
the Americans are ahead of all nations
A GLOWING PREDICTION.
Cast your eyes down our nations track for
single century. What do you behold? l see
6OO,OOO,000 of intelligent happy people,
constituting a strong, united nation. re-
spected and honored through all the world as
foremost of the misunderstanding the great
motive power, unless, indeed, some now un-
known force shall have superseded it-air or
water the chief fuel-labor emancipated from
its drugery by the progress of science, of dis
coyery and of moral ideas-poyerty I'M
characterization universal-eyery wilder
ness and solitary place made glad, and every
desert rejoicing and blossoming like the rose
mot liquor saloon to be found in all the
land-the same Old flag waving everywhere,
unchanged save that its thirteen original
stars, now thirty-eight, will then be an
hundred; and over all the land the blood red
banner of the cross waving in triumph.
Such, or as much nobler and better as In
finite Wisdom can make it, shall be the
United States in 1887!